The death 30 years ago of Pablo Neruda robbed Chile of a poetic genius, a man who inspired a nation's love and its love affairs. Thirty years on, writer Ariel Dorfman has one regret - that he never attended the poet's funeral, days after the Pinochet coup.

For all its rigour in revealing the minutiae of political intrigue, the simple, sad truth to emerge from the Hutton inquiry is the random nature of events that led to Dr David Kelly's tragic, lonely death: Iraq had become an addiction for David Kelly.